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The witcher 3 system requirements

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be officially released in a couple of weeks!!! CD Projekt Red put out the PC system requirements — maybe to give you time to save up for a new rig, if you need one. As with The Witcher 2, I could see this being a game where people need an upgrade.

That being said, after a year of inflated system requirements (Wolfenstein, The Evil Within, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, Assassin's Creed: Unity), The Witcher 3's seem almost...reasonable? I mean, The Witcher 3 will definitely require a powerful machine, and it looks like dual-core CPU users are out of luck again, but for a massive open-world game from a studio known for punishing graphics requirements this doesn't seem too bad.

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Notice that 6GB of RAM is the minimum, mirroring a few other games we've seen this year. Now that consoles have 8GB of RAM, it seems like this is becoming more common. Also notice that the Minimum Specs are basically in-line with the graphical horsepower of a PlayStation 4—its GPU is roughly equivalent to a Radeon 7870 or GTX 660.

As I said, it's definitely not a low-end game, but the requirements seem pretty fair coming from a PC-first company like CD Projekt. I expect the highest settings will also require a rig quite a bit more powerful than the Recommended specs—The Witcher 2 can still make a high-end system bleed, thanks to its uber-sampling capabilities.

And remember, you've got four months to scrimp and save for four SLI-ed Titans. Time to go shovel your neighbor's driveways or something.